Chapter V: Savage Political Life

Theory of social evolution—The hunting state not necessarily
one of political inferiority—Do any tribes exist without any
form of social government?—Examples of the loosest social
connections—Connection of agriculture and slavery with more
complex social systems—Freedom and equality little known
in savage life—Natural foundations for distinction between
aristocracy and commonalty—Ordeals previous to admission to
higher ranks—Devices for marking differences of position:
scars, dress, titles, artificial language, funeral ceremonies,
crests—Savage monarchy—Confusion between gods and kings—Old
Japanese and Samoan feelings about monarchy—Limitations on
savage despotism—Orders of society, approaching to a system
of caste—The relation of tabu to monarchy—Primogeniture in
Tahiti—Absurd rights of nephews in Fiji—Taxation a festival
in savage life—The subordination of the priesthood to the
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